The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 56

'That is not a bad idea,' answered the woman; 'as long as you do die, it is all one to me.'

Who acts: That, bad idea, you, idea · What happens: not be, answer, die, be · To what, where: bad idea, woman, one, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, bad idea, you, idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 idea	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 idea	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 idea	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 idea	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 idea	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idea	amod
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 idea	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 idea	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 die	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 long	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 die	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 die	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 die	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 die	aux
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 die	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 die	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	That	a bad idea			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a bad idea		the woman		tree rules
3	die	present · do-support	you			long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	idea	one	me	all property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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